The New Pornographers

The New Pornographers Detail 'Mass Romantic' Anniversary Tour and Reissue

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2021

The New Pornographers were talking about doing some anniversary shows back in early 2020, but the pandemic stalled those plans. With live m...

'Kaputt' Turns 10: Destroyer's "Violently Laid-Back" Opus That Defined a Decade

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2021

By the time Dan Bejar released Kaputt on January 25, 2011, he was a decade and a half into a career that had already included eight prior D...

Kathryn Calder Launches Calming Toll-Free Phone Service

PUBLISHED Jan 7, 2021

New Pornographers member and solo songwriter Kathryn Calder is the city of Victoria, BC's Artist-in-Residence, and this has led her to laun...

'Twin Cinema' Turns 15: Looking Back on the New Pornographers' Career-Defining Masterpiece

PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2020

Vancouver songwriter Carl Newman founded the New Pornographers on a lark, as a recording project without plans to tour or continue making a...

Take a Tour of the Homes Where Canadian Musicians Are Self-Isolating

Show & Tell

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2020

Canadian artists have been spending a whole lot more time at home lately — and since we can't see them onstage right now, Exclaim! caught u...

Canadian Artists Weigh In on Their Wildest Celebrity Encounters

PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2020

Nearly everybody's got a weird story about that one time they saw Shaquille O'Neal loitering on a street corner in England or witnessed Joh...

​Canadians Who Score: Artists Who Successfully Made the Leap to Composing for Movies

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2020

Alexander Sowinsky and Leland Whitty of BADBADNOTGOOD recently shared their bleak, beautiful music for Disappearance at Clifton Hill, putti...

We've Edited a Bunch of Classic Canadian Album Covers for the Era of Socially Distancing

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has continued to change life as we know it, meaning the vast majority have been cooped up inside our homes as we p...